Sejm uchwalił nowelizację ustawy antytytoniowej, która po raz pierwszy kompleksowo reguluje rynek elektronicznych papierosów i woreczków nikotynowych. Nowe przepisy mają ograniczyć dostęp do tych produktów osobom niepełnoletnim, zakazać ich sprzedaży w internecie i automatach oraz wprowadzić...
Although epilepsy affects hundreds of thousands of people in Poland, the public's knowledge of the disease is still surprisingly low. We talk to Alicja Lisowska - president of the EPI-BOHATER Foundation - about dangerous myths that can threaten health and life, and about simple but effective ways...
Sepsis is not a disease in the traditional sense, but a set of symptoms of organ failure resulting from the body's violent response to infection. Although it is most often caused by bacteria, it can also result from viral or fungal infections. Regardless of the cause, sepsis is an immediate life-...
The Polish Neurological Society has delivered sad news: Prof. Danuta Ryglewicz, MD, PhD - an outstanding specialist in neurology, a respected researcher and one of the most important figures in modern medicine in Poland - has passed away. She devoted her entire professional life to neurology,...
"The My Health prevention program should be mandatory," said MP Norbert Pietrykowski in an interview with Medexpress during the Patient Empowerment Congress.
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. Twenty-seven professorial appointments were given to health-related individuals.
Following a thorough analysis of the drug safety system in Poland, the Supreme Audit Office began inspections of key institutions responsible for drug trading on May 20. Among the things to be checked will be the effectiveness of supervision of pharmaceutical establishments and measures to...
The risk of recurrence in early breast cancer is high. Despite good reimbursement decisions, there is still a group of patients with an unmet health need. - It is a huge achievement to be able to predict and secure the risk of recurrence earlier. We are counting on reimbursements that will...
Everyday life with Friedreich's ataxia is a constant struggle against limitations - both physical and mental. Every day brings new challenges and the need to adapt to the body's changing capabilities. However, there is hope - a drug that works, as Joanna Kostrzewska, who struggles with...
-A large proportion of sepsis cases actually start at home. Of course, there are also sepsis in the hospital, while such sepsis in the hospital is much easier to diagnose, which does not mean that hospital sepsis is always diagnosed in time and that we have nothing to do in this area either....
Czy w polskim systemie ochrony zdrowia brakuje pieniędzy, czy raczej pomysłu, jak je mądrze wydawać? – Jedno nie wyklucza drugiego – mówi Jakub Szulc, wiceprezes Narodowego Funduszu Zdrowia. I wskazuje, że choć nakłady na ochronę zdrowia wciąż są niższe niż w innych krajach europejskich, to i tak...
In Poland, too many women are still losing to cancer, even though they could be alive - if only they had been screened earlier. MP Katarzyna Piekarska, chairwoman of the parliamentary team for cancer prevention "Cancer Stop", talks about why prevention must become a daily habit, like brushing teeth.
Digitization has become a daily occurrence in health care. Registration management and medical record keeping are now done electronically, and the computer is one of the primary tools for medics. In choosing the right equipment, what matters most is performance and compliance with current...
Less than two percentage points of Rafal Trzaskowski's lead over Karol Nawrocki, and the powerful result of Slawomir Mentzen and Grzegorz Braun, who were voted for by more than one in five voters, is the pity news for the entire government coalition. Szymon Holownia's runoff ended with a fatal...
May 19 marks World Family Physician Day, a holiday established by the World Organization of Family Physicians (WONCA) in 2010.
According to statistics, 80% of sepsis cases are out-of-hospital. Sepsis most often starts at home. Symptoms of sepsis can be confused with really anything. This is what Ewa Pląsek, vice president of the Urszula Jaworska Foundation, says in an interview with us, debunking myths related to sepsis.
World Family Physician's Day reminds us that family medicine is not just treatment - it is long-term care, relationship, trust and prevention. - We wish all our colleagues fulfillment in the extremely responsible, but also honorable service they perform for Polish patients," says Bożena Janicka,...
Hospitals still have until May 29 to apply for KPO money for mobile digitization of facilities. Why is this so important? Because code scanners, smartphones and this type of equipment makes it easier for staff, reduces bureaucracy, reduces medical errors.... - experts enumerate.
Endometrial cancer is such a very loud and vocal cancer, because we get the most patients when it comes to gynecological cancers. However, it has been neglected and unnoticed for years, because there were no solutions for it in the development of medicine," says Anna Kupiecka president of the...
How to reduce breast cancer mortality? Experts call for greater access to modern diagnostic tools and emphasize the emotional dimension of the disease.
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